Business Analytics (Industry) : BSc Hons : N1N3

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This degree provides you with a broad set of skills and knowledge that are needed to support modern organisations. You’ll begin to specialise after your first year, choosing from a wide range of modules designed to stretch and challenge you and equip you with the skills you need to start a successful career or to serve as a basis for further study.
In your first year, we build on the maths you did at school, introducing techniques and approaches that help organisations to plan and make better decisions. You will learn to think statistically and analyse data. You’ll learn how to make forecasts and how to use data to understand complex behaviour and be introduced to the operations and strategic business contexts in which these ideas can be applied. You will also take a ‘live’ module, working in small teams to deliver a project for a client in the Lancaster area.
You can choose to specialise at the end of the first year, selecting a main track from Business Analytics; Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Project Management; and Information Systems. You can also take modules from other tracks alongside modules in your main track to widen your knowledge and skill set.
The Business Analytics track provides you with the mathematical tools that develop practical, numerate and computer-based modelling skills.
The Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management track includes: Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Forecasting, Inventory Planning, Risk Analysis and many other relevant topics aimed at developing your understanding of specific business problems faced by operations managers.
The Project Management track develops the project management and consultancy skills to implement ideas in practice, encouraging all employees to participate in change.
On the Information Systems track, you’ll learn more about designing and managing the computer-based systems on which most organisations depend upon in the digital economy.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

The benefit of a Business Analytics and Consultancy degree is its wide application across the business world. Our graduates work for large and small companies around the world, in a variety of roles. The skills you gain from your degree are highly sought after in order to solve business problems and improve decision making.

For example in the travel industry, business analytics are used to help airlines ensure that staff and aircraft are where they are needed, or in deciding variable room rates for hotel companies. Business analytic skills can also help banks and finance companies weigh up credit risks to determine lending policies.

Even within the health sector, business analytic skills are valuable to help healthcare providers keep waiting times down and improve services. Supermarkets use business analytics to plan their stock and manufacturers rely on analytics to ensure that their products are made when their customers need them, at the right price and quality. Roles in any of these situations are possible with a business analytics and consultancy degree.

A Level AAB

GCSE Mathematics grade B or 6, English Language grade C or 4

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Operations Management
  • Risk
  • Forecasting
  • Information Systems
  • IT Project Management
  • Supply
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems
  • Project Management
  • Logistics
  • Supply and Chain Management
  • IT risk

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Foundations of Business Analytics
    • Future Global Leaders
    • Preparation for Placement
    • Project Challenge
    • Statistics and Computing for Management

Optional

    • Introduction to Management Science / Operational Research
    • Introduction to Operations Management
Year 2

Core

    • Consultancy Skills
    • Spreadsheet Modelling for Management
    • Statistical Methods for Business
    • Work Based Learning

Optional

    • Business Modelling and Simulation
    • Introduction to Financial Accounting for Managers
    • Introduction to Operations Management
    • IT in Organisations: Introduction to ERPs
    • Managing Business Information Systems
    • Marketing Fundamentals
    • Optimisation
    • Project Management Tools & Techniques
    • Quality and Risk Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Techniques for Management Decision Making
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning
Year 4

Core

    • Project Management: Negotiation and Decision Support
    • Structuring Complex Problems
    • Work Based Learning

Optional

    • Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling
    • Business Forecasting
    • Business Modelling and Simulation
    • Data Mining for Direct Marketing and Finance
    • Developing Business Information Systems
    • E-Business Management and Technology
    • Essentials of Strategic Management
    • Innovative Developments in Operations Management
    • Managing Business Information Systems
    • Optimisation
    • Quality and Risk Management
    • Supply Chain Management

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Additional information

Overseas Fee - £17,500

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Business Analytics (Industry) : BSc Hons : N1N3

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